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Director Paul W. S. Anderson didn’t pioneer the videogame movie adaptation, but in the bad old days he was one of the very few to make decent (and commercially successful) movies out of adapting our blessed medium. I’m not going to say that stuff like Mortal Kombat (1995) or Resident Evil (2002) are high art,…

A lot has happened since Bungie originally held its alpha playtest for Marathon, which ultimately caused the developer to go back to the drawing board for almost an entire year. One thing’s for sure: in that time, Embark has established a strong foothold in the extraction shooter genre with Arc Raiders. Nevertheless, it’s time for…

While Capcom has been on a roll with the last few Resident Evils, earlier in the series’ life things didn’t always go so smoothly. Resident Evil 2 was rebooted about 70% of the way through its development, with the original version eventually dubbed Resident Evil 1.5. Later it would take Capcom multiple restarts to settle…

Steam Next Fest is in full swing, and when I’m not sailing the high seas in search of pirate survival adventures in Windrose, I’m diving headfirst into the big pile of Balatro-like deckbuilders that are showcasing new demos. As always, there’s a bunch of developers hoping to strike Balatro-sized jackpots by twisting well-known games using…

The End is Nigh is effectively an unofficial sequel to Super Meat Boy: it’s a reflex-oriented platformer with quick deaths, quick respawns and very dark humour. Protagonist Ash “flops his way through a future of pain and suffering” in search of a friend whose body parts are spread around a spike-filled hellscape. Collectibles are tumours….

As reflected by my 2025 Steam Replay, I poured a lot of time into Bongo Cat last year. So when someone said, ‘What if Bongo Cat, with knives,’ you best believe I was intrigued. That is, essentially, the premise for Tap Tap Loot, a cute and significantly more violent clicker game that’s rolled out a…

Path of Exile 2 spoiled me with all the things about it that feel like a modern videogame. Even though it’s extremely similar in a lot of ways, Path of Exile 1 had me fighting against all the fussy parts of it that have gathered dust over the years. Part of the reason developer Grinding…

The Information Commissioner’s Office, a regulatory body charged with regulating and enforcing online privacy matters in the UK, has fined Reddit £14.5 million ($19.6 million) after an investigation found that the platform had “failed to apply any robust age assurance mechanism and therefore did not have a lawful basis for processing the personal information of…

Resident Evil 2 Remake had the tough job of living up to the highest of expectations when it released in 2019, and outside the fixed camera purists there aren’t many people who’d say Capcom failed to deliver. It’s still the tense, eerie journey through the RPD and beyond that we all remember, but Leon and…

Software engineer Sammy Azdoufal had a humble goal: He wanted to control his robot vacuum with a PS5 gamepad, because controlling things with a gamepad is cool. Shortly after pursuing that dream, however, Azdoufal found he had gained control of over 7,000 robots that were happy to provide him camera feeds and floor plans of…